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With expert help from Med-Religion listmember Philip Feller it looks like i
have been able to fix the little problem with my site which made my URLs to
.jpgs on it invalid via simple email.
on the off-chance that someone else on this list might have suchlike a problem
in future, i finish this post with the solution to the thing.
on the even more off-chance that anyone is actually interested in the subject
relating to Medieval Religion, i take the liberty of repeating here a bit of
my own limpid prose re the problem of artistic interchanges between
Anglo-Saxon England and France/
Fleury in the later 10th-early 11th c., this time with working URLs to the
images.
hard to talk about Art History problems without using images, i've found.
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THE A-S ENGLAND <=> CONNECTIONS :
this might have actually happened.
[what follows is partly from Cousin's biography of Abbot Abbo of Fleury and
may well be modified by later research --in which case i would appreciate
hearing of it.]
A-S <=> Fleury exchanges date from at least the time of St. Oswald, who was at
Fleury 959-61, learning the ropes of "monastic reform", which skills he took
back home to great effect. Other A-S monks were at Fleury shortly thereafter,
learning the relevant "customs" and taking them back home.
the Fleury monk Abbo spent 985-7 in England (Ramsey), before returning home to
assume the abbacy of Fleury in 988.
</Cousin>
counterintuitive as it seems (to me at least), apparently Fleury provided A-S
England with the civilising wherewithall to "revive" monastic life;
and yet, in short order, the Anglo-Sexuns were *vastly* superior to the Frogs
in most all things artisitic, which skills were transferred to the continent,
partly (mainly?) via the vector of Fleury, through its Norman priories as well
as the Mother House and, i believe, to other French sites which it had
"reformed".
this lopsided artistic situation can be most clearly seen in the surviving
manuscripts from Fleury.
ms. decoration there seems to have been somewhat "stuck" in a stylistic
backwater of late Carolingian/"Franco-Saxon School" interlace
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p69.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p16.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p1.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-ad-miracles.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/bn8663-f1.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/bn258-f57.jpg
etc.
there seems to have been not much in the way of coherent figure style work at
Fleury
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/berne50.jpg
however, about the time of Abbot (St.) Abbo, we have some reasonably
*spectacular* evidence of A-S influence at Fleury, either because of mss.
being brought there or (just as probable) of A-S artists working in the
Legerian scriptorium itself
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p1.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p149-d.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans342pa.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans342pa-d.jpg
this wonderful drawing style seems to have caught on with the locals, at least
to some extent
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans175p175.jpg
http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/mss/fleurymss/orleans-bm/orleans277-p62-abbo.jpg
--possibly a self-portrait of Abbo himself
*some*thing was clearly going on.
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THE SOLUTION TO THE URL PROBLEM:
1) find a file named .htaccess somewhere in the directory structure of your
site.
b) if it contains really neat stuff like this :
RewriteEngine on
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://christophersbookroom.com/.*$ [NC]
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://christophersbookroom.com$ [NC]
>RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.christophersbookroom.com$$ [NC]
>RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]
iii) either change that code in some arcane way or delete/rename the file.
doing the latter is the _pons asinorum_ to the solution, but only do it if you
don't mind allowing access to your graphic files via links which do not come
from pages on your own site.
all this is explained in exquisitely excruciating detail here :
http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml
my thanks to WebWizard Phil.
best from here,
christopher
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